Quotes About Insight

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

Study men, not historians.

A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

All good art is an indiscretion.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

We do not ignore the use of the meaning in dreaming. But it is good to recognize that there is also dreaming in meaning.

Don't ignore intuitive tickles, lest they reappear as sledgehammers. (from First Rule of Ten)

I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.

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Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

He is wise who tries everything before arms.

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.